foolishwren | 039. Video/Action

_{[You know how most workplaces have those ridiculous, seemingly-arbitrary rules concerning things like cell phones and mp3 players that make sense in theory but really don't in practice? Well... turns out Johto's no different.]}

[The feed flickers on and off a few times so anyone who's looking at Heather's channel is being treated to a sort of trippy view of the ceiling of one of the many floors in the Goldenrod Department Store, jiggling around as though the 'Gear is the subject of a tug-of-war.]

[And uh... judging by the voices that are conversing in heated tones somewhere off-screen, it is.]

I'm telling you for the last time, Temp! NOOOOO PokeGear use during your shift!

It's my break! I'm not even DOING anything right now!

DON'T you backsass me, young lady! I know your type! Traveling trainers who want to make a quick buck-- you're all the SAME!

Wh-- jeez, calm down! I'm not like-- trying to question your authority or something!! Take a chill pill!

YOU ARE OUT OF LINE!

The guys on the fifth floor said they could use their 'Gears during break!

WELL. This isn't the fifth floor, IS it?!

_{[There's a pause, and then a low, almost inaudible mutter on Heather's part of:]}

Oppressive tyrant....

_{[... But apparently it wasn't inaudible enough.]}

BACK IN MY DAY WE HAD TO TIE OUR MESSAGES TO PIDGEYS AND HOPE TO DEAR ARCEUS THAT THEY DIDN'T GET EATEN BY ARBOKS ON THE WAY THERE!!

E-eep!

I HAD TO WALK TWENTY MILES TO WORK EVERY DAY IN BLINDING SNOWSTO--

_{[The feed clicks off.]}

_{[A very resentful-looking Heather slumped in her seat at the cash register, smoldering darkly and glaring at the file cabinet in the staff-room where her PokeGear had been dumped, locked, and left. The words 'AND YOU CAN HAVE IT AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!' were still ringing in her ears.]}

[Jutting her chin out resentfully, she planted it on one palm with her scrawny elbow on the counter, plucking uncomfortably at the fairly-silly-looking Department Store clerk's uniform she had to wear. Yes, there was even a cutesy little hat and a popped collar.]

God, it's like high school all over again....

_{[ooc: Video replies will be answered later in the day when Heather gets off of work and has her PokeGear returned to her!]}

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[slightly whiny]

I've already looked at those. I just couldn't look at the ones on the top shelf! Could you pleeeease check the one on the right? Please?

_{[Oh Kaito. You're lucky you're so charming!]

[Sucking her lips inwards resentfully, she reached up and, with a spindly hand, checked the one on the right. >8T;;;;;;]}

The one behind it!

[he is cute, this is why :>]

_{[His adorability carries him far~]}

This is highly irregular...

_{[She growled as she reached for the next ball.]}

I'm sorry, I must be a pain, but it's really important...

[and then, just as she's reaching, he ducks down to scoop a Great Ball off of the bottom shelf. He studies it for a moment, before his expression lights up]

I found it!

_{[She FREEZES-- her fingers CLENCHING dangerously, just inches away from the ball she was reaching for, at the very back of the box. >8I;;;;]

[Must... retain... calm...]}

... Will that be all, sonny?

[pause, and he opens his mouth, as if he's almost about to say yes--

-- but then he doesn't]

I need a Super Potion, too!

_{[............ D8< ..........]}

[innocence]

Could you help me?

_{[Have the dryest, most intense glare ever to pierce someone's soul in the history of ever.]}

.... Second aisle to the right.

_{[PLEASE GO AWAY SMALL CHILD.]}

[COMPLETELY INNOCENT]

But it's on the top shelf again.

_{[She was going to have some kind of psychological breakdown before this day was over.]

[Pursing her lips (doing so made her face look kind of like an anemic raisin. ... That had hair on it), she started to climb down from the stepladder.]

[Thecustomerisalwaysrightthecustomerisalwaysright....]}

[THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR YELLING AT MY FRIEND YOU OLD COW >:|

Also happily half-skipping to the aisle with the potions now, making sure she's following him]

_{[This could be a lesson to her: NEVER MESS WITH DETERMINED, SLIGHTLY-UNLAWFUL TEENAGERS.]}

All the potions we sell are in exactly the same size. Why do you need a specific one?

_{[EPIC GRANNY SQUINT.]}

[EXACTLY]

No they're not. I checked. Some of them have more liquid than the others.

[points up to the top shelf] Like that one!

_{[She sent him a thinly concealed glare as she tugged the saaaaaame stepladder over to the shelf in question.]}

I'm only going up there once! _{[she informed him, a little snappily at this point.]}

Geez, you don't have to be so snappy.

I want that one! The one aaaaall the way in the back!

_{[Squinting at him like a blind gopher, she tottered her way up the ladder and reeeeeeaaaaaaached for the indicated potion.]

[The ladder wobbled precariously....]}

[... well he doesn't want her to fall because that would be mean, so he watches that ladder juuust in case]

Almost there!

_{[There's a long, tense moment-- it almost looks like she's not going to get it! BUT SHE DOES! .... A-along with the whole rest of the box.]

[LOOK OUT KAITO THERE ARE INCOMING POTIONS. FALLING EVERYWHERE.]}

!!!

[PLAN IS BACKFIRING, PLAN IS BACKFIRING-- well maybe. It is a mess she has to clean up now after all, particularly as the potions crash to the ground at his feet, spilling their contents everwhere.

Kaito yelps and darts away from the avalanche to avoid being hit himself]

Oi--!

_{[POTIONS. POTIONS EVERYWHERE.]

[Meanwhile the old bat lets out an appropriately batlike shriek, clinging to the shelves. The ladder has indeed fallen out from underneath her, but at least she hasn't fallen WITH it.]}

EEEEK! POLICE! FIRE BRIGADE!

_{[Aaaaand now there's a multitude of curious faces peeking around the corners of the shelves at all the racket. Now might be a good time to escape the scene of the crime, Kaito!]}

Edited 2010-11-06 01:30 (UTC)

Police?! I didn't do--

[ooooh there are people watching, and if his time in crime has taught him anything, it's when to leave.

He scoops a potion off of the bottom shelf and salutes at the woman, before DARTING from the aisle toward the register where Heather is.

He looks a bit triumphant! If a bit sheepish]

_{[Heather had been too far out of view to have seen any of what went down, but you bet she heard the crash and the screaming. When Kaito emerged from the aisles, she was standing up, looking mildly alarmed, but an incredulous 'oh my god what did you do even' grin crosses her face when she notes that he is still in possession of all his limbs and hasn't had his head bitten off.]}

Dude, what happened?!

Made her life as miserable as she made yours.

[sliiiiding her the potion]

Er... if she takes out her frustration on you, 'm sorry! This is for you!

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